U+739B "玛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+739B "玛" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese character that primarily functions as a phonetic component in the transliteration of foreign names and terms, most notably in the word "玛瑙" (mǎ nǎo), meaning agate, where it contributes to the sound rather than carrying a specific semantic meaning. It is composed of the radical 王 (jade or king) on the left and the phonetic element 马 (horse) on the right, suggesting a connection to precious materials through its radical while serving as a common building block in modern Mandarin for sounds like "ma." This character appears frequently in religious and cultural contexts, such as in "玛利亚" (Mǎ lì yà) for Mary, and in geographical names like "玛雅" (Mǎ yǎ) for Maya, making it an essential part of Chinese writing for representing foreign concepts and terms.

General Properties

Code Point U+739B
Version Added 1.1
Name CJK Unified Ideograph-#
Block CJK Unified Ideographs
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 玛
HTML Hex Encoding 玛
UTF-8 Encoding 0xE7 0x8E 0x9B
UTF-16 Encoding 0x739B
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000739B
C/C++/Java Escape \u739b

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFD Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
NFKD Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Ideographic
East Asian Width Wide
Script Han
Script Extensions Han
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Other
Word Break Other
Sentence Break OLetter
Ideographic Yes
Unified Ideograph Yes

Unihan Properties

kCCCII 274B5E
kCangjie MGNVM
kCantonese maa5
kDefinition agate; cornelian
kEACC 274B5E
kFourCornerCode 1712
kGB0 3474
kHanYu 21102.170
kIICore AG
kIRGHanyuDaZidian 21102.170
kIRGKangXi 0727.251
kIRG_GSource G0-426A
kTGH 2013:603
kKangXi 0727.251
kMainlandTelegraph 3854
kMandarin
kPhonetic 863*
kRSUnicode 96.3
kSMSZD2003Index 424.06
kTGHZ2013 240.130:mǎ
kTotalStrokes 7
kTraditionalVariant "瑪" U+746A CJK Unified Ideograph-#
kUnihanCore2020 G
kXHC1983 0757.010:mǎ